Ironing-board.



- No. 732,525. PATEN-TED JUNE 30,1903.

L. W. GYPHERS IRONING BOARD.

APPLIUATION FILED JULY 29, 1902.

N0 MODEL.

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UNITED STATES Patented June so, 1903.

PATENT OFFICE.

IRONlNG-BOARD.

SPEGIFICAIIOl\T forming part of Letters Batent NO. 732,525, dated June 30, 1903. I

Application filed July 29, 1902.

To a whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, LINDLOW WV. OYPHERS, a citizen of the United States, residing at East Orange, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ironing-Boards and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

The objects of this invention are to reduce the weight of the ironing-tables commonly employed for ironing or pressing sleeves and similar articles and thus render the handling of the same more easy and convenient, to obtain a pressing-board having a long projecting end to receive the arm of a sleeve and an opposite end to at the same time receive the shoulder, to provide a reversible board adapted to difierent sizes of sleeves, to secure a greater firmness and security of parts, to reduce the cost of construct-ion, and to obtain other advantages and results, some of which may be referred to hereinafter in connection with the description of the working parts.

The invention consists in the improved ironing-board and in the arrangements and combinations of parts of the same, all substantially as will be hereinafter set forth and finally embraced in the claim. 7

Referring to the accompanying drawings, in which like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in each of the figures, Figure 1 is aplan of my improved board, and Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same shown partly in section.

In said drawings, a, and 1) indicate pressingboards of different sizes adapted to the ironing of different-sized sleeves, said boards being held in parallel relation by a groupof wooden connecting-bars o c c, closely and firmly fitted within borings d, extending partly through said boards at points each apart from the others. The groups of corresponding borings are disposed at one end of the boards opposite one another and the connecting-bars therein stand at one end of the device, so that the pressing-board extends a considerable dis- Serial No. 117,429. (No model.)

tance to one side, as in Fig. 2, thus permitting of said long projecting ends the shoulder portion can be fitted over the said rounded end adjacent to the connecting-bars. An entire sleeve can thus be ironed or pressed at once, and one or the other of the two boards a b is used according to the size of the sleeve. The lower board restsupon the table and the one in use is held by the connecting-bars in a parallel plane several inches above, as is convenient in ironing. The borings d are of sufficient depth to hold the connecting-bars erect or firmly at right angles to the planes of the boards and aredisposed at or near the longitudinal axes and near the edges of the boards, so that the latter are prevented from warping. Each group of borings is made simultaneously by correspondingly-grouped bits or augers arranged in connection with suitable means forholding the board in proper position with exactness. The borings being made, the connecting-bars are driven into place with great ease and the device is complete for the market, a structure being produced which will not rock or'vibrate or give under the pressing operations.

By my construction I am enabled toobtain great strength and firmness of union between the boards and at .the same time greatly reduce the weight from that of boards connected by flanged iron connections sometimes heretofore employed, and thus the device can be more easily and conveniently handled by a laundress, and'thisconvenience of manipulation'is-greatly enhanced by the separate connections disposed near the edge of the board, each of which is round and thus easy IOO tion at the longitudinal axis. The distribution of the vertical connections at points away from the center provides increased firmness to resist pressure of the iron, especially when the latter is pressing at the longitudinal edges -of the board.

Having, thus described the invention, What I claim as new is The improved ironingboard comprising two boards disposed in parallel planes, one of which boards is Wide at one end and narrow at the opposite end, the Wide end having separate borings directly therein, distributed on opposite sides of the longitudinal axis of said July, 1902.

LINDLOW' XV. CYPHERS. Vitnesses:

CHARLES H. PELL, (J. B. PITNEY. 

